Image analysis – Applications – Target tracking or detecting
Reexamination Certificate
2007-01-12
2009-11-17
Chawan, Sheela C (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Applications
Target tracking or detecting
C382S190000, C382S274000, C348S169000, C345S204000, C345S629000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07620206
ABSTRACT:
To make it possible to accurately track a prescribed part a low-resolution overall image is taken in from an input image, and a medium-resolution image, whose center is the head part, is extracted from it. When it is possible to extract a medium-resolution image in the middle of which is the head part, an even higher-resolution image is extracted, in the middle of which is the two-eyes part.
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Chawan Sheela C
Katten Muchin & Rosenman LLP
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.
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